Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-01-29

Considerable grading has been done on
the 'Iail lot" corner High and Spring, to
prepare it for the government buildings. \
prominent real estate dealer said the other
day:
when the government building and city
buildings are erected the business of the
city will be concentrated in the squares
bounded by Main, Spring, Washington and
Center streets There will be some tor
tunes made in real estate on Spring street,
on East High street between Limestone
and Spring streets, and West High, be
tween Market and Center streets. on Wash
ington street. both east and west, within
the limits as described above and on Center
from Main to Washington. There is quite
a scramble for property on the squares
mentioned above. They are just as sure to
become business property and to be built
I'D with stores as anything can be"
ANY man who can read correctly the
trend of growing city has sure fortune
because he will always know how 10 buy
In advance of the progress OF a city. The
rapid advance of Springield's population
has made more business houses a necessity.
The business of city grows like vast
vine, creeping along wherever it is easiest
The greatest growth in the past three years
has been out Main street, both ways. There
has also been a slight growth on north Mar
ket south Limestone and Washington
streets. In the near future the greatest
demand will be for business houses as near
the center of the city as possible. This will
create a boom in the property mentioned
above. In two years from the erection of
the postofiice | think that east High street,
from Limestone TO Spring and Spring street
opposite the postOffce. will be built up
solid with stores and business houses. A
postoffice is wonderful magnet TO draw
business into its vicinity. | believe that If
postofiice was built on a hill so steep a.
to be surmountable only by rope ladders
that the streets leading TO it would be built
up with stores.
Take the example of Cincinnati. When
Il was learned that the new pOStOffice there
was 10 be erected on Fifth street, instead
of Fourth, a wild howl went up from prop
erty owners on Fourth street and shout
of Joy from the Fifth streeterS. \ CinCin-
matt real estate agent told me the other day
that property in the vicinity of the new
pOstoffice has in some cases nearly doubled.
The cheap blocks on Walnut street ada
cent to the postofiice will gradually be re-
placed by new and paiatial buildings, and
the changein the location OF the pOstOttice
has changed the whole center Of business
in Cincinnati.
In Springfield the effect will be about the
same on zeal estate values.
The day when it was announced that
the new postoffiee was to be built at High
and Spring streets, the value of property
in the vicinity popped up To a pretty tall
figure. The market house scheme has
made a similar advance in adjoining prop
erty on Center, Washington and High
streets.
Many of our German fellOw-citiZens are
preparing 10 make a pilgrimage to the
Fatherland next year in lSSS, when the
great Worlds Fair will be held at Berlin
Germany will no doubt try to OutdO all the
worlds fairs held in Europe during the
past half century. 1t is probable that eX-
cursiOn rates will be made from cities in
Ohis direct for Berlin. thus giving US
ands of Germans in Ohio an opportumI,
to visit their native land. Ii this is done
most of the Germans in Springfield would
probably attend the Worlds Fair.
''If you want 10 get a cheap bicycle now
: Is the time to get one" said an enthusiast
on the sport yesterday. In the winter
there is any number of young fellows who
would be glad to sell their machines fol
little more thai. half what they would de-
man6 for them in the summer. With mud
inches deep on the roads the JOYS of bi-
cycling look very far away, and many
young men who are enthusiastic bicyclers
in the summer would gladly hail plan OF
converting their steel steedS into Sleighs
and opera tickets in the winter"
How is Cedarviile. Mr.. r. H. Young
Does prohibition really prohibit Just al
present i'll the awful SOlitudes of the cedar
metropolis"
mo, sir. am sorry 10 say that it dOes
not. There are still three places in the town
where liquor con be obtained"
why, how is that? | thought that Ce.
darville always enjoyed the extraordinary
coincidence OF a powder mill explosion iuSi
about the time that a saloon opened"
well, these three places are not regular
saloons. They exist undHr the agency
clause of the Dow law. There are thre,
agents of brewing companies in Springfield
Columbus and Cincinnati. They sell
liquor by the jug and in wholesale quaint
ties. In my opinion the system is as bad
as regular saloons"
DR.. T. NJ. Reade, the genial physician
said the other day: 1T is not generally
known that eating celery is one of the beSt
means Of quieting and soothing the nerve>
which exists. The well-knOwn patent
celery plant, but the stalks of the plant il
self are much better"
The doctor has proved the efficacy of the
remedy in his own case, and has great
faith in the celery grab" for nervousness.
1T is wonderful how rapidly young ac-
tors and actresses of talent get to the
'front.'" said veteran theater-goer of this
city. Take the example of Mrs. Netti
Van Sickle, of this city. As Miss Nettir
Flack she went through the Springfield
high school, and appeared ON a few Occa-
si0ns in public in connection with X ,rcises
OF the Star and Crescent society as reader
and elOcutionist. She appeared two OF
three times in a leading part in the Color
Guard, the Drummer Boy and other anna
teur plays. Her success in these was so
great that her reputation reached as far as
Cincinnati. A theatrical manager from
that city came to Springfield and engage d
. her to fill leading roles in his company
Here at one bound. without preliminary
training. she reached the difficult and i'm
pOrtant position of leading lady, the posi-
tion next 10 that of the highest in the
theatrical professionalism of star In
her own words she says of her first exper-
fence in this position: Il had studied elo-
Ecution and thought had learned the first
principles at least of the dramatic art.
imagined that the work would be similar To
my recitatiOns and amateur performances
But soon found my mistake After the
first rehearsal the manager very frankly
informed me that would have to unlearn
all had already learned and commence